Should we have an elected House of Lords?
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🗓️ 18 April 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Former senior civil servant Jill Rutter joins the podcast to answer listener questions on the inner workings of government.
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| 0:00.0 | Enjoy cracking deals at ASDA this Easter. |
| 0:03.4 | With oyster base, overnight blonde, roll back from £10.44 to just £7.96. |
| 0:08.8 | One metre of Smyrne off on ASTA price at £18 £19.7.27. |
| 0:12.5 | And a 24 pack of refreshing diet coat was £11. Now just £7.12. |
| 0:17.9 | With these and loads more great offers, make ASDA your one-hop Easter shop. |
| 0:22.5 | That's ASTA price. |
| 0:24.3 | Select a source subject to availability, |
| 0:26.1 | Coke offer ends 23rd of April, |
| 0:27.8 | may exclude ASDA Express. Prices may vary. |
| 0:32.8 | The New Statesman. |
| 0:38.4 | Hello, I'm Rachel Connolliffe. It's Friday, so this is where we answer your questions |
| 0:43.3 | about all things political. Remember, if you'd like to get in touch, you can go to |
| 0:48.0 | newstatesman.com forward slash you ask us, or leave a comment on Spotify or YouTube. |
| 0:54.5 | Now, over the past few months, we've been receiving an increasing amount of questions about |
| 0:58.4 | the inner workings of government. And to answer these with a level of expertise that you, |
| 1:03.5 | our listeners, deserve, I'm joined today by Jill Ratter, former civil servant and senior |
| 1:08.7 | research fellow at the think tank UK in a changing Europe. |
| 1:12.2 | Hello. Hello, Rachel. Thank you so much for coming back. We should say that you have done this |
| 1:17.7 | podcast before. The last time you came in, I think it was autumn 2022. And unfortunately, that podcast |
| 1:25.5 | never saw the light of day because Liz Truss very inconveniently resigned a few hours later. |
| 1:32.7 | I think Kirstarmer on his holiday is probably hoping that this is not a precedent and that my appearance in your podcast does not mean that he's about to have to give an emergency press conference, Sack his Chancellor, |
| 1:51.3 | and leave the building by the next week. So fingers crossed for Kirstarmer on his well-deserved and long-awaited holiday. Fingers crossed for Kirstama, fingers crossed for this podcast going out |
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